Production and Perception of EnglishTense/lax Vowel Contrastsby Korean EFL Learners

Storytelling is a practical and powerful teaching tool, especially for language learning. Teachers in language classrooms, however, may hesitate to incorporate storytelling into language instruction because of an already overloaded curriculum. English foreign language (EFL) teachers in Taiwan report additional problems such as having little prior experience with integrating storytelling into la...

strategies of strengthening family foundation mohaddesi h , yusofi m* received: 22 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: family is the first basis for psychosomatic growth and socialization of individuals in a community. family members who are uninformed or reckless about their rights and responsibilities will make a field for different psychosocial damages such as vio...

The case studied in the paper proves that thickening the pile cap is an effective seismic retrofit alternative to strengthen a pile group foundation. Unlike the typical seismic retrofitting of foundation, the proposed method eliminates the need to drive long piles into existing bridge substructures, substantially reducing cost, construction time and traffic interruption. The method thickens the...

We propose a novel solution for reconstructing planar surface patches. The theoretical foundation relies on variational calculus, which yields a closed form solution for the normal and distance of a 3D planar surface patch, when an affine transformation is known between the corresponding image region pairs. Although we apply the proposed method to projective cameras, the theoretical derivation ...

Theme-Rheme theory is one of the important components in text linguistics, which is closely related to language teaching and learning. This paper applies the Theme-Rheme theory in EFL reading teaching for nonEnglish majors in college, and explores its influence on students’ EFL reading proficiency. The result of this study proves that the Theme-Rheme theory is an effective system and it has cer...

This is a semantic pilot study which concentrates on how people in Taiwan process the temporal metaphors, ego-moving metaphor and time-moving metaphor. Motivated by the research of Gentner, Imai, and Boroditsky (2002) in which the English native speakers comprehend ego-moving metaphors faster than time-moving metaphors, the present study attempts to reexamine whether the faster reaction to ego-...

This preliminary study aims at investigating the production and perception of the English nasals /m/ and /n/ in word-final position by a group of 10 intermediate Brazilian EFL learners. Production data was collected by means of a Sentence Reading Test considering preceding vowel as phonological context. Perception was assessed by means of an identification test contrasting native-like vs. nonna...